The City of Ottawa promised to ensure that "there is enough greenspace to meet the needs of a growing and diverse community and will maintain natural systems, biodiversity and habitat...Ottawa residents will have greenspace in close proximity to homes and communities." (Greenspace and Ecohealth Toolkit, January 2017, Page 36/74.)
Their actions belie their words. The following March 2018 development applications are within 700 m or walking distance of the Natural Resources Canada Booth Street location:
1.) 27 & 29 Balsam Street and 249, 261, 263, 256 and 267 Rochester Street. Proposal to construct a 23-unit, three storey residential development with an internal private road.
2.) Approved. Preston Square. 333, 334 and 347 Preston Street and 17 Aberdeen Street. Construction of a single storey addition on Adelaide and a new 24 storey residential tower.
3.) 93, 95, 97, 99, 101 and 105 Norman Street. Application. Residential apartment building comprising of a nine storey tower and a three storey podium stepping back to a fourth and fifth storey, all framed by two storey townhomes.
4.) 265 Carling Avenue - Zoning By-Law amendment submitted...A 20 storey mixed use building containing 149 apartment condominium units, 11 live/work townhouses and an 882m2 commercial unit.
5.) 770 Bronson Avenue - 15 storey mixed use building (85 residential units) and commercial at grade.
6.) 557 Cambridge Street and 774 Bronson Avenue - 12 storey mixed-use building for university students with retail at grade.
7.) 895 Carling Avenue - three high mixed-use buildings (55, 48 and 18 storeys) and a large public plaza and direct connection to the O-Train.
8.) 490, 491, 492, 495, 500 and 505 Preston Street - 45-storey mixed-use condominium with gross floor area of 22, 047 square metres. 490-500 Preston Street- 30 storey residential condominium with commercial uses occupying the ground and portion of second floor.
9.) 514, 516, 518, 530 and 532 Rochester Street. An 18-storey mixed-use building with 326.32 square metres of leasable commercial space at grade and 127 residential units above. The entrances to the commercial space will be directly from Pamilla and Rochester Street.
10.) 680 Bronson Avenue - Zoning By-law amendment application to permit retail/office uses within the entire building, the building footprint will not change.
11.) 144 Renfrew Avenue - 3 storey mixed-use with commercial uses located on the ground floor and 14 residential units on the upper floors.
12.) 324 Cambridge Street - zoning By-law amendment-Amend the parking requirements to permit the development of 11 new residential units on the ground floor of the existing residential building.
13.) 207 Bell Street - permit new land uses on the ground floor of the existing building.
14.) 220 Lebreton - demolish the existing 3-unit two storey building and construct a new 4-storey, 10 unit apartment building. (Google: "Canada Lands Company Booth Street complex" - webcast.ottawa.ca. pages 9, 10 and 11 out of 98.)
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Nearby- A superhospital on 50-acres of the Central Experimental Farm and a 30-acre botanical garden near the Arboretum and the Rideau Canal Hartwell Locks. The garden will have a paved parking lot, amphitheatre, a tower, paved plaza, etc. Federal. Agriculture Canada and Public Works.
401 Lebreton at Carling - towers will be built on the former NCC Headquarters lot. Federal. National Capital Commission.
Demolition of the Tom Brown Skating Arena for affordable housing. Municipal. City of Ottawa. Google: "City eyes baseball stadium, Tom Brown Arena for redevelopment" CBC News.
Demolition of 1010 Somerset Street West for affordable housing. Federal. Public Works Canada.
Demolition of the Oak Park Armoury, 933 Gladstone for affordable housing. Federal. Department of National Defence.
Demolition of townhouses across from the Adult High School, 300 Rochester Street for affordable housing. Federal. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
The Humane Society land on 101 Champagne is now the site of two residential towers. Municipal. City of Ottawa.
The Booth Street Complex - Federal. Department of Energy, Mines and Resources.
When the Civic Hospital is eventually demolished the land will revert to the city. The municipality has an obsession with high rise condominiums, rapid transit and intensification. Green space, trees, the Dominion Observatory, landmarks and preserving our quality of life are not high on the agenda.
You cannot take away the Farm and the Lebreton Flats, government of Canada. Little Italy is being victimized by rampant, out of control redevelopment--- they deserve more than "parkettes" that are smaller than an acre.
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